NMA urges dentists to shun strike

THE Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) yesterday urged dentists and health workers in public hospitals across the country to remain at their duty posts and ignore the “ill-motivated strike” called by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU).

NMA, in a statement by its National President, Dr Osahon Enabulele in Benin, called on JOHESU to call off its job boycott in the interest of professionalism, peace and progress.

It described JOHESU as an amorphous coalition of some allied health professionals/paramedics and criticised its demands, particularly the basis of its strike. The NMA said the boycott is unwarranted and unpatriotic.